"Scroungers No = Political Football Yes".

Britain seems to have changed for the worst, i can't help but feel that the majority of people have lost their way and need to take a long hard look at what the important things in life are about. The vunerable in our society have become an easy target for the "gutter press" i.e(sleazy Red Tops, etc) who rely on this kind of issue to sell papers and too generate discontent in order to "unite the brainless" ("dey ar livin like kings aint dey") under the banner of a noble cause? these kind of people do not posess the ability to think for themselves and are "easily whipped into a frenzy" of hate and disgust towards anything put in front of them, especially the unemployed and vunerable who they are unreliably informed are "stealing their hard earned money", this form of contagion leads the spineless labour goverment to react true to form - inadequately, to "be seen to be doing something" in order to quell the enraged "brainless" who have been led like sheep to reach only one conclusion from media sources who tend to "make the news and not tell it".

As we know the press are powerful and have the potential to destroy goverments, therefore hightened media attention on any subject brings about "knee jerk reactions from self serving spineless politicians" who use the opportunity to score points with the voting public by using the welfare state as a "political football" to reasure the "Brainless sheep" that their ("penny is not being used in vein to support the ammount of undeserving unemployed and vunerable in our society") this reasurance comes at the expense of the genuine and vunerable
"majority not minority" through continual victimisation to appease the "brainless".

I accept fraud does occur and it needs to be dealt with, but not at the expense of genuine claiments, and not to appease the "brainless Sheep".

(Q) If the unemployed are continually branded by the "media and society" as scroungers, lazy, useless etc, do you think this false portrayal as social inepts will make them more attractive as potential candidates by employers or will it make their unemployment situation reciprocal?

In todays day and age nobody has a job for life, your contribution to the welfare state should be seen as your insurance policy so if you do unfortunately become unemployed or fall ill (No one knows what future holds) you and your familly will be supported, do you want to give politicians the ability to erode that safety net when you might be next in the unemployment line?

This is the "over-egged" Headline for this story:

"A record 51,790 claimants pick up stress-related in­capacity benefit and cost hard-hit taxpayers £122million every year in Britain’s sicknote culture".

In my opinion this is the type of spending culture that needs addressing....

1st Example:

Gordon Brown went on American TV to boost his profile and gave 100 million pounds of "hard hit tax payers money" to an asian country for Mosquito nets".

2nd Example:

The goverment spent 175 million pounds of "hard hit tax payers money" getting 17 drug addicts of heroin".

These examples are not at all exhaustive.


British society, its values and principles are being slowly diluted to a point were people are becoming disposable and were materialism and self aggrandisement is king, familly values take a back seat and were people seem to be losing track of the really important things in life, the things that make you truly happy.

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